Senior Software Engineer (Cortex)

Your Career

As a Senior Backend Engineer within our On-Prem platform team, you play a pivotal role in building a new on-premise platform for running Cortex products. You will design and develop an infrastructure that supports billions of events per second, storing, processing and making them accessible and visible to the user while collaborating with the industry’s leading cyber products. Building a highly available, reliable and secured on-premise platform that performs just as good as the cloud product is a significant challenge. Your crucial role goes beyond development, involving cross-organizational impact collaboration to ensure success. The great majority of the Cortex engineering group is located in the TLV office allowing us to operate at a high pace with short decision-making loops. In this role, you will need to be creative, innovative and demonstrate deep knowledge in Kubernetes, conducting research to find new technologies, with a can-do approach, and an internal drive for excellence and improvement.

Your Impact 

• Huge! Work on a brand new product, from design to implementation! 
• No tiny tasks / only bug fixes! You will implement major parts of a new product, we are not in a maintenance stage
• SAAS to on-premise challenge! Building a whole on-prem platform that will work seamlessly like the SAAS product
• Who knew? You do! Research new technologies and see how they can be adapted to the product

Your Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Software Backend Engineering
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software and Computer Engineering, or equivalent military experience required
• Proficiency in at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) 
• Experience with building microservices
• Experience in Go / Python
• Experience with Ansible - an advantage
• Development knowledge in some scripting languages 
• Experience in cyber-security domain - an advantage
• In-depth knowledge of k8s managed and unmanaged -  an advantage
• Experience with Helm or CDK8 -  an advantage
• Mentor team members, and provide guidance and support in both the design and development phases
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker, independent, and a strong team player 

The Team

Join our dynamic team where innovation and collaboration thrive. Experience a workplace that fosters personal and professional growth, providing opportunities to take ownership of your career journey. Embrace the cutting edge of technology as we encourage professional work in software engineering, particularly in the cloud domain. Make a real impact in the security domain, contributing to solutions that directly benefit and protect our valued customers.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.